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For the first time in the Canary Islands, Festival de Tenerife presents the dance show Las muchas,, by Companyia Mariantònia Oliver. The piece, which deals with age as a source of wealth, includes eight women aged over 70 who on Tuesday, 20^th started a workshop offered by the company. The full show, an invitation to exalt femininity in those who are still willing to dance, can be seen at Sala Castillo in Auditorio de Tenerife on Friday, 23^rd at 7:00 pm.

Las muchas is about the frailty old age involves, about bodies which no longer belong in the social corpus, which stop being in the official market but which are full of life, and above all, freer: bodies which breathe, weigh, dance, seduce, move and are positioned differently. Las muchas is the result of the need choreographer Mariantònia Oliver (protagonist of the piece) felt to listen and take in her experiences. The idea this proposal starts from is a fish shoal, an emerging system, an organism made up of many individuals making one single movement. It is also based on common images citizens put together, their identity because in the end, they all share similar emotions and situations.

Companyia Mariantònia Oliver is a contemporary dance company based in a small village in the centre of Mallorca, Maria de la Salut. Throughout her career she has worked different disciplines in projects for adults or families. In recent years, she was awarded the Premio Escénica 2010, the Premio Mejor Espectáculo Illes Balears 2011 and Premio Proyectos Escénicos Ajuntament de Palma 2009 and 2011.

Tickets can be bought at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday; on the website  www.auditoriodetenerife.com, in this link or calling 902 317 327. You can also get 50% discount by showing at the box office a ticket for a Festival de Tenerife show you had previously bought.

Auditorio de Tenerife resident group Quantum Ensemble, is going to La Laguna University’s Paraninfo for their concert Despedida [Farewell] on Thursday, 22^nd at 7:30 pm. They Will be playing String Quintet in C major, one of the last compositions by Franz Schubert, and Quartet for clarinet and string trio, by Krzysztof Penderecki.

David Ballesteros (violin), Adrián Marrero (violin), Cristo Barrios (clarinet), Lander Etxebarria (viola), Asier Polo (cello) and Iván Siso (cello) are the musicians who will be playing at the University’s Paraninfo. An hour before the concert, there will be a talk in the same venue by Juan Manuel Ruiz, composer, essayist, music critic and Member of the Real Academia Canaria de las Bellas Artes [Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts].

Finished two months before he died in 1828, String Quintet in C major is one of Franz Schubert’s last compositions. Ever since it was premiered in 1850, there has been speculation about it being a farewell; particularly because of the depth of its contents and the moment it was composed but also because of the unusual instrumentation. According to Cristo Barrios, “Schubert avoids adding a second viola to the traditional string quartet, as Mozart and Beethoven had done, and adds a second cello instead, possibly with the aim of getting a deeper sound”. Barrios highlights that “the quintet is fragile and vulnerable, feelings dear to Schubert and the Romantics in general”.

Krzysztof Penderecki’s Quartet for clarinet and string trio according is strongly influenced by the mood of Schubert’s quintet, and more widely by the musical personality of Alban Berg, according to Penderecki himself. “Therefore, the piece connects emotionally with the expressive tone of the 19^th century, Schubert being its greatest exponent, while aesthetically is fully rooted in the 20^th century”, Cristo Barrios explained.

Tickets can be bought at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday; on the website  www.auditoriodetenerife.com on this link or calling 902 317 327. You can also buy them at Paraninfo box office in La Laguna University one and half hours before the show starts. Students will enjoy a special discount for this concert, in addition to the usual offers at Auditorio de Tenerife.

Also, as part of the outreach work Quantum Ensemble usually carries out, a group at risk of social exclusion will attend one of the rehearsals to enjoy a didactic session with the musicians.  This week, an association of people with autism will have a sensory session on Wednesday, 21^st at 5:00 pm at the Paraninfo. On the day of the concert, Friday 23^rd, Cristo Barrios, founding musician of Quantum Ensemble, is giving a Performance Class to students of the Conservatorio Profesional and Conservatorio Superior de Música de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, institutions that collaborate with this activity.

Ópera de Tenerife premieres Donizetti’s Lucia de Lammermoor on Tuesday, 20 November. This coproduction of Auditorio de Tenerife, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires and Fundación Ópera de Oviedo takes us to one of the most iconic Romantic operas with the noteworthy participation of Russian soprano Irina Lungu (Lucia) and Tenerife tenor Celso Albelo (Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood).

The plot, through vocal virtuosity and the difficulties of the score by Gaetano Donizetti, introduces us in the mishaps and tribulations of ties of blood and love. The cast also includes Andrei Kymach (Lord Enrico Ashton), David Astorga (Lord Arturo Buklaw), Vittoria Vimercatti (Alisa) and Klodjan Kaçani (Normanno). Due to an indisposition, Mariano Buccino cannot sing on the first performance so he will be replaced by Gabriele Sagona in the role of Raimondo Bidebent. The music is played by Sinfónica de Tenerife and Coro Ópera de Tenerife -directed by Carmen Cruz- is also taking part.

Christopher Franklin is the musical director while Nicola Berloffa takes care of stage management. The show is set in late 1940s Scotland, at the height of the postwar period. This post-conflict context serves to place the characters in a stifling, gloomy and unhappy atmosphere, thus reinforcing the dramatic nature of Donizetti’s opera. Costumes, designed by Justin Arienti, have a simple cut and use a low-key colour scheme, in line with the precarious clothing after the war, although there are references to Scottish culture by using kilts.

Tickets for the three performances -Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday- can be bought at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday, on www.auditoriodetenerife.com clicking here or calling 902 317 327.

Lava, the new Auditorio de Tenerife resident dance company, premieres their first show on 2 December at 7:00 pm in Sala Sinfónica, as part of Festival de Tenerife. The details were disclosed on Monday, 19^th by the Island Director for Culture and Education, José Luis Rivero; Lava artistic director, Daniel Abreu, and the choreographer of one of the pieces being premiered, Fernando Hernando Magadan.

About Lava José Luis Rivero said that “it was a project and now it’s real and we’re seeing it on the stage at last”. “We’re very excited about Lava, which places us at an interesting starting point at national level, and it’s much talked about outside the Island”, he explained.

Daniel Abreu, National Dance Award 2014 and winner of three Max awards in 2018, was in charge of selecting the choreographers for the first shows: Bending the Walls, by Fernando Hernando Magadan, and Beyond, by La Intrusa company. “I’m proud to be able to present Lava and show the world what happens naturally on the islands: quality dance”, the artistic director revealed. He also said that the show will be at Teatro Pérez Galdós in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 5 December at 8:00 pm.

Choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan, current director of Nederlands Dans Theater 2, admitted that “it was a long time since I was last in Spain and working here is very special for me”. The artist explained that his piece “has a special closeness, and it’s about that, bending walls, limitations and it touches on that which makes us humans through the bodies, which make us feel sensitivities”. Bending the Walls, a Korzo Theater and NDT production, explores the world of restrictions and limitations in our search for happiness, freedom and understanding: physical and psychological limits inside every individual and in the world around us. It is a metaphor about the psychological, physical and emotional forces human beings can use to transcend palpable reality, overcome grief and escape to the world of the imagination.

The second piece of this double bill is Beyond, by Virginia García and Damián Muñoz of La intrusa, Premio Nacional de Danza 2015 [National Dance Award]. Beyond deals with the experience of searching through the landscapes of memory, portraying an uncertain scenario that constantly forces us to create or reflect on our own life, on the landscape everyone builds either consciously or accidentally.

Lava started work at Sala Castillo in Auditorio de Tenerife in September. The dancers have had classes with different experts, like Charo Febles, ballet teacher. Lava’s six dancers, chosen by public call, are Luis Agorreta (Cáceres), Javier Arozena (Tenerife), Emiliana Battista Marino (Nápoles, Italy), Samuel Déniz (Gran Canaria), Carmen Fumero (Tenerife) and Virginia Martín (Madrid). Lava is the artistic creation section of Tenerife Danza, which is part of the Instituto de Artes Escénicas del Cabildo, within the Tenerife 2030 Strategy.

Tickets can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday; on the websites www.auditoriodetenerife.com and www.festivaltenerife.com, here or calling 902 317 327. 

On Friday, 16^th, Tenerife Danza’s social scheme, Danza en Comunidad, had a meeting with some thirty representatives of the 21 groups they work with, including programmers and collaborators. Their aim was to analyse the work done in the past year and design new goals for next year, starting in February 2019 with two new schemes.  The island director for Culture and Education of Cabildo de Tenerife, José Luis Rivero, welcomed the agents involved in Danza en Comunidad, and said that “in this work meeting we’ll find new ways of carrying on with our collective work”.

José Luis Rivero also stated that “when we started to outline this project, there was a wish to open this path; we knew it was going to be a collective process of trial and error and that it wasn’t going to be easy to get into the groups without being part of them”. About the meeting, he explained that “the project can’t go on wisely without contrasting experiences and needs of everyone involved.”

Danza en Comunidad’s coordinator, dancer Laura Marrero, explained that “the meeting was taken to the cafeteria” and said that “regarding social issues, it won’t work unless you have a good relationship”. She also thanked Helena Berthelius, coordinator of the Tenerife Danza’s Pedagogic Unit, for taking part at the start of the project.

One of the new programmes is called Transmisión, and it consists of taking a piece that has been practised by a group, with their values and processes, to another group of suitable sensitivity. Another new feature is making longer visits for certain groups, whose needs and characteristics require more than eight sessions a year to get results, as for example functional diversity groups. This way it will turn into a regular process and dance can become part of their routine, as is the case at Centro de Educación Especial Hermano Pedro.

The sixth Danza en Comunidad has just finished and the starting point was the concepts of identity and living together, so meetings in this regard have been held to open and close the year. In the first contact in February, major synergies arose, with Danza en Comunidad in the role of mediator. One of the people involved in the open call managed to get the social brand Dona Kolors included in the Feria Internacional de la Moda de Tenerife [Tenerife International Fashion Fair]. “This does not only benefit us but also the agents involved, as new collaborations may come up”, stated Marrero, who leads a group of professionals including Cristina Hernández, Raquel Jara and Carmen Cruz.

The work methodology used by Danza en Comunidad is to first start with meetings to discuss theories (like this one) that lead to practices where movement is the key. The process ends with a performance by the members of the group. Each group builds a different line of action. The idea is “for them to share with us the full experience of a professional dancer” Laura Marrero explained.

This year-long scheme allows people to start dancing in these groups and then go on in following seasons either individually or in weekly sessions held at Auditorio de Tenerife facilities. Also, the open call means that anyone who is interested in sharing these processes can take part in the sessions without having any experience or belonging to a group. 

Ópera de Tenerife puts on Lucia di Lammermoor, the most frequently performed opera by Gaetano Donizetti. A coproduction of Ópera de Tenerife with Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires and Fundación Ópera de Oviedo. The second title in the season takes us to one of the most iconic Romantic dramas, Lucia di Lammermoor.

The details were disclosed today, Thursday 15^th, by the island director for Culture José Luis Rivero; Ópera de Tenerife intendent, Alejandro Abrante; musical director, Christopher Franklin; stage manager, Nicola Berloffa, and singers Irina Lungu and Celso Albelo, representing a cast that includes Andrei Kymach, Mariano Buccino, David Astorga, Vittoria Vimercatti and Klodjan Kaçani.

In José Luis Rivero’s opinion, “this title is a major turning point for Ópera de Tenerife because it’s a palpable sign of maturity, and shows the artistic and production level achieved, as a result of the work done by the whole team”. “The best operas in the Canaries come from Ópera de Tenerife which are also top level nationally and are very well regarded internationally”, he added to then point out that “Lucia di Lammermoor is an iconic title in Donizetti repertoire and it has great dramatic quality”.

Irina Lungu, who is in Tenerife for the first time, said that “I’m happy to be performing at Auditorio de Tenerife for the first time”. It has great acoustics and a fantastic energy, I feel at ease here; it’s a real discovery and I’d like to thank the professionals at Ópera de Tenerife for treating me so well”. About the role she is performing next week, she highlighted that “every soprano should sing this Lucia because it’s like the beginning of singing, the foundation of it all” and revealed that “this role has two parts: the one written by Donizetti and the cadence given to it by the first performers, which has reached the present through tradition”. Her favourite moment is “madness, where my vocal virtuosity blends with my acting”.

For his part, Celso Albelo admits that “coming back home is an honour and it also involves responsibility: I feel particularly proud because on the Tenerife stage we can now see artists who have opened the present season in great theatres worldwide. Ópera de Tenerife has achieved a lot in very little time.  Their Lucia di Lammermoor gives off musical and stage elegance” and says that Irina Lungu “has one of the most beautiful soprano voices in the present”.

Christopher Franklin is the musical director of this production. This is his first time at Ópera de Tenerife after directing in the main opera houses in the world. Franklin highlighted the quality of Sinfónica de Tenerife. “It’s a fantastic orchestra, virtuous”. About the show next week, he pointed out that “we’re dealing with one of the most difficult repertoires in the world” and believes that “Donizetti wrote high-spirited sounds that have to do with life”.

Stage manager Nicola Berloffa, is back at Ópera de Tenerife after working in Die Zauberflöte (2012 and 2018), Cosí fan tutte (2013) and Carmen (2016), to take us with this Lucia di Lammermoor to late 1940s Scotland at the height of the post-war period. Berloffa points out that “this show is extremely difficult for every stage manager because it’s a masterpiece. One must follow both the libretto and the dramaturg, which cannot be changed.

The libretto is by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott, and music by Gaetano Donizetti. The story, by means of vocal virtuosity and a difficult score, introduces us into the mishaps and tribulations of ties of blood and love. This story of conspiracies between two rival families and one single fate was premiered on 26 September 1835 at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

Costumes, designed by Justin Arienti, who is also making his debut in Ópera de Tenerife, have a simple cut and have a low-key colour scheme, in line with the precarious clothing after the war, although there are references to Scottish culture by using kilts.

Lighting is in the hands of Valerio Tiberi, in Ópera de Tenerife for the first time. The Romantic essence of the drama will be conveyed by the use of chiaroscuros.  Tiberio, teaches lighting design at Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan and has a long career in musical and opera shows.

The show is on Tuesday 20^th, Thursday, 22^nd and Saturday, 24^th at 7:30 pm at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife. Tickets for the three performances -Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday- can be bought at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday, on www.auditoriodetenerife.com clicking here or calling 902 317 327.

Creative Team

Musical Director: Christopher Franklin

Stage Manager: Nicola Berloffa

Stage and Costume Designer: Justin Arienti

Coproduction: Auditorio de Tenerife, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires and Fundación Ópera de Oviedo

Ópera de Tenerife Choir

The Festival Internacional de las Artes del Movimiento (FAM) and the Festival de Tenerife are taking over Auditorio de Tenerife on Sunday, 18^th  to fill it with dance. The duet Eran casi las dos starts at 7:00 pm in Sala Castillo, and is followed by Generation at 8:30 pm in Sala de Cámara.

Festival de Tenerife’s Eran casi las dos, [It was nearly two] is a contemporary dance show that seeks to tell a story as if it were a piece of news. Through dance and electronic music, they stage in a cinematographic style what happened when it was nearly two.  

The main idea of the script is around a meeting point for two people where he (Miguel Ballabriga) is waiting for her (Carmen Fumero) to arrive. They have different intentions and what unfolds is the result of a conflict in the past. Envy, struggle, egocentrism and illness leading to loneliness move both individuals in their physical conversation, which ends tragically. Eran casi las dos won the First Prize at the 29 Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid and the RCH Award for best performance at the 14 Certamen Internacional de Coreografía Burgos-New York.

Generation, a collective piece on the FAM bill this year, is part of the Creadores en Comunidad scheme by Danza en Comunidad. At Sala Castillo in Auditorio de Tenerife, Valencian company Taiat Dansa is giving a workshop from Thursday, 15^th till Sunday. Twenty people from the different Danza en Comunidad groups have enrolled.  Taking the work done at the workshop as a starting point, they will create the piece Generation in which workshop students and dancers Meritxell Barberá and Inma García are taking part.

Dance Generation, the Taiat Dansa project which includes this activity, is keen on making audiences aware of the practice, creation and history of contemporary dance. So, professionals, amateurs, students, children, teenagers, young people, parents and grandparents get together in the same space to break the barriers that separate dance, and art in general, from citizens.

Tickets for both shows can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife box office Monday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, on websites www.auditoriodetenerife.com  and www.festivaltenerife.com  or calling 902 317 327.

The Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Tenerife (Fimante) [Tenerife Early Music International Festival] and the Nova Ars Organorum (NAO) series present the concert “El vademécum de un órgano romántico” [Vade Mecum of a Romantic Organ], to take place tomorrow at Iglesia del Pilar in Santa Cruz de Tenerife at 8:30 pm. Admission is free to enjoy listening to the young Tenerife organist Juan Luis Bardón (La Orotava, 1994).

The Romantic organ at Iglesia del Pilar, built in 1923 by Catalonian organ builder Lope Alberdi, is suitable for a varied repertoire despite its limited number of stops. Bardón will be playing Late Baroque compositions like the transcription Johann Sebastian Bach did of Vivaldi’s concerto grosso, in addition to a Prelude and Fugue by the composer and truly Romantic pieces like those by German Mendelssohn, a great admirer of the Cantor, whom he followed in his musical conceptions of the organ; and the Belgians Cesar Franck and Lemmens as well as the versatile French musician Dubois.

The artistic director of the Nova Ars Organorum series, Rosario Álvarez, revealed that “in these compositions, Romantic expressiveness is represented in different ways, by contrasting pieces and at times, fragments, of intimate, softened sonority with other powerful, grandiose ones which will fill the naves of the church. Belgian and French composers are experts at achieving this as they worked very differently from their contemporary German colleagues”.

Fostered by the Cabildo, through the Area Tenerife 2030 scheme and with the coordination of Auditorio de Tenerife, Fimante + Nova Ars Organorum join the cultural scene to revive repertoires both in traditional and new venues on the island. With the support of Canarian players of period instruments, historic organs reconditioning, the latest interdisciplinary research, and the historical-geographic location, we hope to be keeping and spreading our cultural heritage for future generations.

For the first time, the Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife [Auditorio Young Choir] is taking part in the Fiestas Lustrales in La Gomera, in the Encuentro de Corales [Choir Gathering] to be held on Saturday 10 November at Auditorio Insular Infanta Cristina.

Organised by Cantares Estudio Coral with the collaboration of San Sebastián Town Council and Cabildo Insular de La Gomera, the event includes choirs from across the Archipelago, coming from Gran Canaria, the Coro de Cámara del Colegio Oficial de Médicos, from La Palma la Coral Awara, and from Tenerife Coro Juvenil del Auditorio, in addition to the host choir Asociación Musical Cantares Estudio Coral Isla de La Gomera.

Directed by Roxana Schmunk, the Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife is performing ‘Azul’, by Julio Domínguez on texts by Rafael Arozarena, ‘Arrorró’, traditional Canarian composition arranged by J.Durán; ‘Yo no quiero morirme’, arranged by Dante Andreo with texts by Elsa López; Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallellujah’, arranged by the group Pentatonix. In Schmunk’s words, “Coro Juvenil is honoured to have been invited to this Encuentro Coral. We are very happy to take part with other choir singers from different islands and we think it’s a great way to start the season as it’s motivating for the new members of Coro Juvenil and they can enjoy singing with other choirs too”.

All the groups together will be performing the song “Gomera” from a poem by Pedro García Cabrera and music by Joan Manuel Serrat.

Las Fiestas Lustrales de La Gomera in honour of the Virgen de Guadalupe started in July and the Bajada de la Patrona [procession of the Virgin] took place on 8 October. Activities will go on till 28 November.

Festival de Tenerife is displaying a homage to Pedro Lezcano in the shape of a multidisciplinary show outside Auditorio de Tenerife. La maleta [The suitcase], a coproduction of Canarian companies Teatro KDO (Tenerife) and Fireworks (Gran Canaria), directed by José Pedro Hernández, is performing on Saturday, 10^th at 8:30 pm. Admission is free.

The show, which is based on the homonymous poem by Pedro Lezcano, one of the most relevant intellectuals in the 20^th century, was written by playwrights Enrique and Yeray Bazo. The scenography, a giant suitcase that changes throughout the show to recreate different spaces, has been designed by Basque sculptor resident in Tenerife Julio Nieto. Costumes are inspired by circus and steampunk styles and are designed by José Castro.

Actress and assistant director Yanely Hernández, is part of the cast together with Baltasar Isla (El exiliado), Francis Lorenzo (El corredor), Esther Martínez (Izmir), Juan Carlos Baeza (Franz), Daniel Sanginés (Braulio), Jesús Raya and Marcos García (Los vigilantes) and Francisco Vera (El desplazado).

In this visual framework, seven characters who are forced to migrate, tell their stories in a show that brings together theatre, dance, acrobatics and music. The search for freedom travels through this great suitcase that sees a striking evolution while offering a most original mise en scène.

Festival Internacional de las Artes del Movimiento (FAM) and Festival de Tenerife are taking over the streets of Santa Cruz on Friday, 9^th with open-air dance performances. The first one is by Basque company LASALA, in Plaza Ireneo González at 6:00 pm. Festival de Tenerife’s “Luz de farol” is starting at 9:00 pm in Plaza de Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias.

In the piece by LASALA performers Jaiotz Osa and Garazi Etxaburu, dance following the motto of the piece: “Nosotros, en un mundo de sombras respirando luz” [Us, in a world of shadows breathing light]. The 16-minute piece is part of the Acieloabierto national tour and its choreography is by Judith Argomaniz with music by Arvo Part, Acid Ghost, George Frideric Handel and Deep Frieze.

“Luz de farol”, whose first part took place in La Laguna on 4^th October, is now coming to Santa Cruz de Tenerife with three new proposals by Canarian dancers who are inspired by urban street lamps. This Festival de Tenerife production starts in Plaza de Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias with Isabel Mora. It then goes on to Puente Serrador, where Raquel Jara Domínguez will start dancing at 9:15 pm. Finally, Daniel Morales will perform a piece for the first time in Plaza Isla de la Madera, outside Teatro Guimerá at 9:30 pm. The idea and its development are by the performers chosen by Festival de Tenerife and Asociación de Artistas del Movimiento PiedeBase [Movement Artists Association], and are coordinated by Laura Marrero.

The Festival Internacional de las Artes del Movimiento (FAM) is putting on the dance show Labranza, inspired by rural life, in Casa Los Zamorano in Tegueste on 11^th November at 12:00 midday. The Dispositivo Labranza has been put together for this show; it is a workshop by the company Colectivo Lamajara Danza, in which some twenty participants will work with the dancers to take part in the performance on Sunday. Admission is free.

Labranza, performed by Paloma Hurtado, Reinaldo Ribeiro and Daniel Rosado, portrays the countryside, its people and their everyday tasks. This proposal, thought out so that every individual can contemplate their rural identity, will immerse viewers in a rural environment packed with action. The vignettes faithfully portray the genuine everyday life of country folk and are backed by old-time stories whose simplicity are the driving force of the milieu and charge it with identity.  

The “Dispositivo Labranza” workshop started on Monday, 5^th and will go on till Friday afternoon at Sala Castillo in Auditorio de Tenerife. The dancers work with the participants, who enrolled free of charge, through different stage and body movement games, using elements like wooden poles and learning the choreographies for the show. The aim of the group is to provide a stage structure that takes social and professional dance through a creative process that starts from the search of possible similarities of farmers and artists, and aims for the participants to act from the concept deep in the countryside.

Lamajara Danza is a group of artists who share the same interests in the language of the body and its ability of expression. This organisation has generated artistic work from experiencing physical work and everyday farmer duties to turn it into the language of movement of contemporary dance.